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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Smooth Side, Rough Side

Smooth Side, Rough Side

Vogelsang, Arthur

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1968148612
ISBN13: 9781968148614
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A poet who takes as much from the New York School as from the Metaphysicals, Arthur Vogelsang's images bespeak both imagination and intellect, his forms equal parts carpentry and classical piano, his aesthetic as whimsical as it is political. His good, nasty poems evoke the America of Norman Rockwell, says John Ashbery, as Hieronymus Bosch might have painted it, though Vogelsang at second or third glance is never as ironic or surreal as on first read. His absolutely familiar voice, as one reviewer calls it, disarms amid tough syntax and surprising juxtapositions, and that same reviewer, Gerald Stern, in tracking the mixed polar qualities of Vogelsang's work, says by direction and by indirection he creates a verbal framework, a poetic tablet, the way a poet can, and if he's brave enough, does.

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